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V _ y "The one Idea which History exnibita as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness w the Idea or Humanity-the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views ; and by setting aside the distinctions of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great obiect-the free development of our spiritual nature . "—Humboldt ' s Cosmos .
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News of the'Week— P * ° e Lord Londonderry and Abd-el-Kader 939 Londonderry 9 « The Game of Speculation .......... 949 JNEWS OF THE WEEK rae £ " [ , ; ' Qmnion 939 Men and Movements 941 The Season of the Sacred Harmonic BoS ? Siysteriea of the Austrian Eea h o ? F-e " nlmore Cooper 940 Colonial Representation 914 Society 919 Monev Market 9 . 35 Personal News and Gossip 940 A Royal " Pervert to the Water Organization of the People—Ij £ ™ SirfKo »« ti » " ::::::::: ::: K East India New * P . MO Cure 944 NationalC ^ ter Atsoeiatum 953 rather Gavazzi and the Friends of The late Gales 940 Kosstith 914 Om Councilrta 936 Murders and Suicides 941 A False Alarm 914 1 o Giuseppe Mazzini y ? J Protection at ' a biVenunt " . ' . * . " . ' . ' .. . " .. Miscellaneous 941 Social Keform . — " Notes of a Social Von Beck and Derra 9 _ > L A Sc ^ ne in the Court of Aide men .. 237 Births , Marriages , and Deaths 9 U ( Economist" 944 The National Land Company .... &> L A Comity Court Jud ^ e in a " Fix . " .. 937 Public Affairs— Literature- Health of London dunngf the Week 9 j 1 Ireland 938 The Last Manchester Meeting- 942 Philosophy of the Water Cure 946 Commercial Affairs—A Bloomer Riot ' . ' . ' . " . ' . .. " . " « 8 " That is Whit we Want here " 943 Mig-nefs Mary Stuart 947 AlarRets , Gazettes , AdrMisements . Is not Sir John Franklin alive ? 938 Abd-el-Kader , Louis Napoleon , and The Ahts— & c . yol-j £ i
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Protection is giving up the ghost ; leading men of the party are daily deserting ; it is a sauve qui peut . Mr . Disraeli ' s retreat is generally imitated—Harcourt and Henley at Watlington , Clive at Ludlow , Wemyss and Robert Palmer at Maidenhead , have all fled ; General Wemyss dies jesting ; Robert Palmer plays undertaker to . Protection with grave decorum . They * talk bravely of lowering rents ; but they do not tell the farmers whether that intended reduction is to remove then the
farce now annually performed , for the well-understood purpose of keeping up rents . Mr . Clive proposes corn-rents . All hint at hopes , very distant , dim , and doubtful hopes—beyond the grave , as it were- Mr . Disraeli ' s scheme is mentioned with marked coldness . Mr . Harcourt thinks that Mr . Henley is the man to suggest something ; but Mr . Henley " dqes not see his way clear . " No more do the farmers . In short , Protection is given up , and nothing is advertised to succeed it . The farmers are left in the lurch .
In Ireland more than one striking fact shows the still unsettled state of the country . John Lamb , the intelligent Quaker correspondent of the Northern Whiff , avers that the harvest has been got in by women , old men , and boys ; the young men having gone to America ! Imagine society thus thinned . The harvest is not bad—but the people ! They are gone , or going . The time has
come for repaying advances made by Government on the security of the Poor rates : several of the Unions are repudiating—Roscommon , Cialway , Mount Bellow , Tuam , and Mayo especially . The repudiators are headed by Lord Lucan , rebuked by Mr . Stafford . We do not believe that Ireland can pay ; there are no signs of it . The iirat breathing time after ruin and famine is not the time for any but a Shylock to ask payment of his hond .
The Whigs are again put upon their mettle by the Irish Roman Catholics . ' Paul , Archbishop of Armagh , " has signed the address of the Catholic Defence Association . The Lion of St . Jarlath ' s is no longer alone in his heroism . Does Lord John KusHell dare carry out the provisions of the Eccle-Hiastical Titles Assumption Act ? One institution is kept up uninjured— -London < ily . This week hath the next Lord Mayor been « li'cl . ed . The Aldermen have taken tho occasion <> Hcold the Times for quizzing them at the time of the Paris visit ; itn mdincreUon on the part of the Aldermen which Sir Peter Laurie seriously rebuked . The world will lean with HutiHiaction , on his own authority , that his withers are unwrung .
Delay is the trump card in all that is legal . The new Appellate J urisdiction Act came into force on the 1 st of October : of course the provisions of the » ct were put in force ; but , strange to fltttte , the tCoVNTRY fi » lTUm >]
appointment of the new judges is not officially announced . ThefVice-Chancellorships , vacant by the alleged new appointments , are going a begging . What a lack of confidence this fact betrays in the stability of Whig rule and Whig reform ! It is a novel thing in England to find a Judge attacking the liberty of the press ; ordering the arrest of an editor without a warrant or summons ; imprisoning him for contempt of court , videlicet , printing the opinions of the said Judge : further imprisoning him for alleged assaults , and committed on
defending himself against an unauthorized attack upon his personal liberty in his own house ; arresting and imprisoning his son ; hauling up the police for refusing to abet said Judge ' s illegal proceedings ; and causing a summons to be served on another editor for a similar offence . It is novel to read of a whole town sympathizing with an alleged contemner of judicial authority , and escorting him with " enthusiastic cheers " on his road to prison- — and back again . Yet such is the spectacle presented by the Judge of the Liverpool County Court .
Murder , suicide , and manslaughter form quite a feature in the " light reading " of the week . In two instances , the dreadful tragedy at Camberwell and the suicide in the City indicate the rottenness of our trading and commercial system . Fawcett appears to have killed his children and himself because he could not face ruin and failure ; Ingle Rutlge , because he could not meet " settling day " at the inexorable Stock Exchange . The Frotaje murder is only one of the points of that sunken reef of rocks we last week called " Moral Plagues , " which has protruded above the surface . Let Society in her pride beware !
The crusade against the liberty of the press in France has been partially arrested by the acquittal , on a second trial , of the gcrant of Jta Pressey for publishing' Victor Hugo ' s letter to the Avhicment du Peuple with comments . Not , however , before M . Eugene Bareste had been prosecuted for a paragraph of incorrect news m ha lltpublique , a paper distinguished for calmntfes and consistency in its advocacy of social reforms . But what is thin to Leon Puncher ?
One thing seems tolernbly clear , and that is , that M . Louis Napoleon will probably be " sold " altogether , as a reward for his truckling and indecisive ambition . Meantime be \ h bidding for popular sympathies . Having seduced the marketwomen into embracing hia cause , he has now commenced a round of visits to the working associations : " not ( say . s La . Patrie ) to display sympathy in favour of a principle which was admitted to be a bad one , but to give a proof of the solicitude of the Government for the working classes . "
Rather late in the day for this new Kolicitnde , which we imagine the associations will know how to estimate at its real value , if not to dispense witli U altogether . JJut the fact is indicative of a new straw in the wind .
Austria and Piedmont are snarlingat each other from Somma and Marengo . Their manoeuvres are something more than sham-lights ; but we are glad to notice that Victor Emmanuel is not afraid to leave his palace to the citizen-guard during his absence . His reception and that of the Duke of Genoa are very different from the official enthusiam of the Austrian soldiery . Of the young Emperor ' s welcome at Milan one fact speaks volumes . The man who contracted to illuminate the city waa murdered J At Como the municipality flatly refused to send a
deputation , or to vote the expenses < jf a tStfe ^ At Mantua " Morte all' Imperatore ! " was found inscribed on every wall . ' At Verona * . considered the most Austrian town in Haly , the Emperor ' s reception was a very poor one , being confined to a few wretched torches , and a display of horsemanship a la Franconi at the Amphitheatre . Of the rest of Italy it may be ' said that one knows less of what is going on around one there than w-e do in England . All information except what suits the Government is excluded from the few
newspapers allowed to appear ; there seems to brood over the land the shadow of a vust cloud which darkens joy from almost all faces , and turns the fairest cities into cities of the dead . We do not speak by mere report ; we may almost say that we have seen this with our own eyes . From Vienna we learn the return of that posthumous Noah , Metternich , to the Ararat of ' his old age . . He will hardly , be worth disturbing again . Italy has responded to Hungary at La Spezzia ; and Kossuth has landed amidst : irr , l ; irnations at
Marseilles . liut he will not be sorry to exchange tlie land of Franco-Austrian Police and Spies for the City of the Draymen , who are ready , as all classes are , to give the illustrious exile a welcome worthy of a land of freedom . Democracy is striking its roots in quite unexampled directions . The Iberian Republic , comprising Spain and ^ Portugal , ig visible on paper . Another straw in the wind not worth noticing , many vain partisans will say .
Death having deprived Herat of its Khan , Dost Mohammed , the Affghan , has seized the vacant post . It is expected that Persia will interpose on behalf of the young Khan ; and if so , probably Russia may find occasion to get nearer to our Indian border . Perhaps so . We confess that at present we watch even " the progress of Russia in the East" wijh
leas solicitude than-the progress of diweovory in the North-West—the search after Franklin . Dr . Jolla Rae plac e * beyond a doubt the fact that Franklin and his party may Ijave Hu ' rvivej !; and it is posMible that Dr . Rae may already have joined them . De j 4 or ulivo , they mast be found ; but the probability ib , that they liavo not yet perished ; at all events the latest explorations render their survival up to 0 recent period the moat notable fact .
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 4, 1851, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_04101851/page/1/
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